Why are procedural textures defaulting to pink?
Change the default color of the procedural texture as shown in the image.
Property panel &gt; Texture tab &gt; Influence Section.


There are many types of texture in the list. Most of them are
classified as procedural. Procedural is just a way of saying &quot;code generated
textures&quot; ... instead of the regular images made from a bunch of pixel (RGB)
information.
The power in procedural map is that it can be applied in many ways
(as a mask or as a texture), mixed with other procedural textures to
form new ones... and this is just two of the many benefits.
The image / Environment map type texture is the only two types that isn't consider procedural.